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Solid Wall Insulation

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Solid Wall Insulation

What is Solid Wall Insulation?

Solid wall insulation is a way to improve the insulation of your home, reducing heat loss and importantly, keeping costs down.

Unlike cavity walls, solid walls are traditionally built before 1930 with no cavities or gaps in the middle. Therefore solid walls must be insulated internally or externally.

What are the benefits of Solid Wall Insulation?

Homes losing heat are losing money. A poorly insulated house will be costing  significantly more in heating bills than a fully insulated house. Insulation slows the transfer of heat, reducing the amount of energy consumption and  keeping it warmer in winter.

Vice versa insulated walls slow the transfer of heat, so in the summer it will maintain a cooler temperature for a house which uses air conditioning. 

Internal Wall Insulation is a fan­tas­tic way of increas­ing the energy effi­ciency of your home, upgrading your insulation will provide you with a number of benefits including reducing your CO2 emissions, reduced fuel bills, increased thermal comfort and reduced risk of condensation and mould growth.

Is My Home Suitable For Solid Wall Insulation?

Solid Wall Insulation is suitable for your home if:

  • You have solid walls
  • Insulation hasn’t already been installed
  • Any penetrating or rising damp issues have been rectified

Important To Consider

  • Will slightly reduce the floor area of any rooms in which it is applied (the thickness of the insulation is around 100mm).
  • Can be quite disruptive, but can be done room by room.
  • Requires skirting boards, door frames and external fittings to be removed and reattached.
  • Can make it hard to fix heavy items to inside walls – although special fixings are available.
  • Cannot be done before fixing any problems with penetrating or rising damp.

Assurances

  • 25 year IAA Guarantee
I was unsure at first about the idea of free insulation, a new heating system & solar panels. I mean, it does sound a bit far fetched. But to my surprise, it's real. Absolutely delighted tbf.
Philip Stanley
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Cavity Wall Insulation

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Cavity Wall Insulation

What Is Cavity Wall Insulation?

Cavity walls can be insulated by injecting insulating material into the cavity from the outside through drilled holes in the outer walls.  If your home was built after 1930 then it’s highly likely you have cavity walls and would benefit from cavity wall insulation. 

You will know if your property has a cavity wall by checking the brick pattern .

What Are The Benefits Of Cavity Wall Insulation?

Our expert team only uses Energystore Superbead EPS Bonded Bead which provides more benefits than the standard insulating material.

With Superbead, you can be confident that you’re also making the best decision for the environment. In an independent assessment, Sustainable Homes found Superbead to have the lowest Global Warming Potential per equivalent unit of insulation of any insulation product available in the UK. 

Energystore Superbead will last for the lifetime of your building and has a carbon payback of only 5 months. With Energystore Superbead EPS Bonded Bead you can expect:

Check Outstanding durability – rot-proof, water resistant and sufficiently stable to remain effective for the life of your building.

Check No settlement – the blown beads are coated with an air-drying bonding agent during installation. This means we can ensure there are no gaps at the top of the property and the insulation stays in place for the life of your building.

Check Consistent density and constant thermal projection – your property is properly insulated from top to bottom.

Check No wastage – all the beads we add help to totally fill the cavity and form a homogeneous heat-saving mass.

Check Superior product – an industry-leading product with low health and safety liability.

Is My Home Suitable For Cavity Wall Insulation?

Your home is suitable for Cavity Wall Insulation if: 

Check You have cavity walls and don’t already have insulation

Check You have cavity wall insulation but have found damp in your home. We would advise you to contact your cavity wall insurance company, or if you have no guarantee we may be able to help you with cavity wall extraction if your property is suitable we will re-install with our premier product. 

 

If your house doesn’t have cavity walls, we can still help reduce your energy bills with Solid Wall Insulation.

Assurances

  • Every Cavity Wall Insulation we install is covered by a CIGA Guarantee
  • The Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency provides independent 25 year guarantees for Cavity Wall Insulation fitted by registered installers in the UK and Channel islands
Would like to say thank you for everything, from keeping us informed of everything. Our home feels a lot warmer with having the cavity wall insulation that goes in the internal walls, excellent and now just had the boiler fitted, highly recommended and we want to say a special thank you to Luke & Cameron, very tidy and efficient a credit to your company
Julie
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Frequently Asked Questions

During the survey the assessor will use a borescope to inspect your walls to check if your cavity wall is suitable for insulation. They will carry out a through inspection of the wall type and make an assessment of suitability for insulation. The holes will be filled afterwards. 

Sometimes when a house is built, the builders put some of the rubbish left over from the build into the cavity, broken bricks, mortar building debris etc. This can also happen when windows have been replaced or a new extension built. It is very important that all the rubble is removed and the cavity is clear ready for insulation. In some cases the amount of rubble is too much to be removed, especially if there are large pieces of bricks and lumps of mortar, in this case your property is not suitable.

The simple answer is to avoid damp . It is really important that  the external structure of your home is well maintained; Gutters are kept clear and repaired, brickwork is pointed, cracks in render made good and roof maintained.

Absolutely! About a third of all the heat lost in a home escapes through uninsulated walls. Having cavity wall insulation installed will save you money on your energy bills and reduce your carbon footprint.

Approximately 2-3 hours. If your home requires remedial works before install, the time required would be added to this appointment, or carried out at an earlier appointment.

If your survey indicates your house has no damp course, we will install an injectable damp course. This will prevent moisture from the ground penetrating the cavity and causing damp.

After we’ve assessed your eligibility for funding, your property will have a retrofit assessment survey and a retrofit coordinator will design a plan for your home. We’re not able to give advice on energy efficiency measures for your home until that assessment has taken place.

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Cavity Wall Extraction

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Cavity Wall Extraction

Cavity Wall Extraction is the process of removing defective insulation from cavity walls and can help solve dampness. Cavity Wall Insulation currently helps to keep an estimated 6 million properties energy efficient across the UK, however, this insulation can become damp due to damaged and worn brickwork. If this happens, you may notice cold spots on your walls or unexplained patches of damp.

We remove damaged cavity wall insulation material with minimal disruption and mess. Compressed air is blown into the cavity while we collect the damaged insulation from the bottom of the wall through strategically removed bricks. We use a borescope to inspect the cavity throughout the process to ensure no damaged insulation is left behind. Finally, the old insulation is bagged up and removed, while your brickwork is made good.

What are the benefits of Cavity Wall Extraction?

Cavity Wall Extraction is essential for homes where previous cavity wall insulation is failing and causing dampness. Prolonged damp can not only make your property an uncomfortable place to be but it can rust wall tiles leading to the inner and outer walls separating.

Cavity Wall Extraction

Is My Home Suitable For Cavity Wall Extraction?

Your home is suitable for cavity wall extraction if your home has cavity wall insulation that has become defective and is no longer providing your home with the insulation it needs.

Once your cavity wall insulation has been extracted and the underlying cause of the insulation failure has been identified and remedied, your property will be re-assessed and if suitable we will reinstall with an EPS bonded bead.

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Assurances

We are registered on the IAA Cavity Extraction and Remediation Certification Scheme. It is a quality process which has been developed in consultation with the industry and ensures that cavity extraction and remediation is completed to the required standard by trained and qualified Technicians and work is subject to onsite surveillance by The IAA.

‘Extraction completed by Mark, what a great guy, very efficient and pleasant to talk to. Cleaned up before leaving, highly recommend. Just waiting for a date to fill with insulation.’ Date of experience: 29 March 2022
Ian Murphy
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Frequently Asked Questions

There are a couple of different reasons why cavity wall insulation may have failed and needs removing. Some houses are not suitable for cavity wall insulation and should never have been installed in the first place. Other reasons are that there is damage to the brickwork, the property has not been well maintained or later building works have caused voids in the insulation; this thermal bridging causes damp patches and mould. If water enters the cavity and makes the insulation wet, the insulation must be removed.

Then you must contact the guarantee agency and they will support and advise you on next steps.

If we identify damp caused by existing cavity wall insulation and we think it should be removed – we instruct the Insulation Assurance Agency to carry out an in depth survey of the insulation, they will provide a full report and will give an approval for extraction if it is required.

After we’ve assessed your eligibility for funding, your property will have a retrofit assessment survey and a retrofit coordinator will design a plan for your home. We’re not able to give advice until on energy efficiency measures for your home that assessment has taken place.

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